How Currents Dictate Fire Damage in Niagara Falls Homes

8/20/2021 (Permalink)

Smoke and fire damage restoration for your home can be very devastating. SERVPRO will have your home back to preloss condition in no time. Call now!

Understanding the Behavior of Fire can Help SERVPRO Professionals Provide Efficient Cleaning to Niagara Falls Properties.

No two-loss situations are identical, making the fire restoration and cleaning necessary change with each new recovery need. Identifying the type of fire damage that occurred can help us anticipate the smoke damage left behind and the appropriate cleaning measures necessary to overcome it. 

Types of Smoke Damage Possible in Fire-Damaged Homes

Fire damage in Niagara Falls homes can become affected by multiple variables, which ultimately impact the necessary cleaning or restoration approaches. Given the changes in the temperature and the tendencies of air to expand at violent rates in high-heat conditions, smoke damage can change along with the atmospheric conditions present during the fire. For example, driven smoke damage occurs in higher heat situations where the expansion of air blasts smoke residues to vertical surfaces. Horizontal surfaces are more heavily damaged by free-floating smoke present in lower-pressure conditions.

Cleaning Smoke-Damaged Surfaces

Because so many surfaces and contents can become damaged by migrating smoke damage, there are several possible approaches to removing these residues and soils. The faster that our professionals can eliminate smoke deposits, the less likely that irreparable harm like staining and erosion occurs. Some of the common cleaning and restoration approaches for removing smoke damage include:

• Wet cleaning
• Chemical sponges
• Dry ice pellet blasting

With so many varying levels of fire and smoke damage, there are multiple needs that a home has after exposure. As leading fire restorers, our SERVPRO of North Niagara County team can help with the cleaning and deodorization that properties need to return to their original, pre-fire conditions. Give our experienced team a call today at (716) 299-0330.